Can’t remember why I looked into it but my very first experience was using Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.4) on VirtualBox. At some point I also used Wubi to install either that one or one or two versions later on a desktop PC. Honestly I didn’t really “get it”, it was difficult to do anything (tar.gz files utterly defeated me), I really didn’t understand the concept of the apt package manager. I was curious but ultimately didn’t really know why anyone would bother using it.
A few years later I installed one of the versions of Ubuntu when they moved to the Unity DE (again on Virtualbox). I remember really liking it (only later found out how controversial it was) but yet again didn’t really understand why I would want to use it instead of Windows.
It wasn’t until around maybe 2018 or 2019 that I installed Linux Mint on a spare SSD in my computer and actually began using it. However yet again I still didn’t have a reason to use it - that was until I got involved with an open source project and trying to set up a dev environment on Windows completely melted my melon. The instructions to get the dev environment going on Linux looked so much easier, and it was. I’ve barely looked back since.
I got a Karmic Koala (ubuntu 09.10) CD from my friend kn my high school days, I install it on my Pentium 4 PC then freaked out because there are no codec and I can’t install it because I have no Internet at all, lol. Going back to windows until I have Laptop on my second year of uni. I still needs to use my uni’s wifi to install any apps, but it is workable and I use Linux almost exclusively since then. (sometimes dual boot-ing if there are Lecture that needs me to use windows.)
MX Linux which is number 1 on Distrowatch for a reason. Much easier than installing Debian itself which needs some tweaking, and really just Debian with some extra tools, latest Firefox… The Debian 12 based version is ready and I don’t have any issues. I also run Debian set to Trixie/Sid, which is fun if you want Debian to be like a rolling release distro, but you need to enable some bug reports and know how to manage updates to not have things break on you.
Maybe around 2nd grade with the piper computer which was a small rpi based laptop that you built. I switched fully in 5th grade when my windows install broke. A few months before that I switched on my laptop when my math teacher reminded me about it. I Have rarely used windows since but for a few months I used a Mac laptop. My linux laptop (Dell xps 13 7390) I had was hidpi, kind of slow and died quickly and the m1 Mac hardware was just plain better (this was close to when the 2020 m1 Mac came out so no asahilinux). I have used pop, manjaro, arch and alpine Linux. I have been using it for a few years now and never plan on going back to windows though I do occasionally use macOS for nonfree/closed source apps. When I first switched the only game I played was Minecraft which worked just as well as windows. Now almost all the games I play are free software like Minetest and super tux kart.
Why do you want to disable it? Unless it’s causing conflicts your easiest option by far is to simply disable all extensions and pretend it doesn’t exist
I just wanted to save a bit of space, cause I thought by having two DE’s on my system would use up space. I guess if it would break my system I would leave as is. Do you know how I could make Fedora boot right into KDE instead of Gnome’s Login manager? I forgot the directory…
I don’t really distro hop much (you need a rolling release distro and a stable distro, never needed more) but if you’re asking I’ll assume you’re a Linux newb so really I would recommend doing something less custom. If you want Fedora and KDE, install the Fedora ISO that comes with KDE and be done.
I won’t say it’s incredibly complex to run multiple desktop environments, but it’s definitely more of a pain and can cause weird issues (fucking NetworkManager) Better to stick to the “happy path” and make your machine as standard as possible so it’s more compatible with everything, especially if you’re new to Linux
I picked up RedHat 6.0 (hedwig) on the front of a Linux magazine in 2000. Took a few days to get X working on my Pentium3 at the time. In the end the thing that sent me back to Windows was an inability to get my modem running and thus no internet.
When I was at university in 2004 doing a network administration course, our lecturer was very proud of the livecd he’d created with an environment for the course. It was based on Fedora core 2. It was fascinating. Tried to install fc on my laptop at the time but struggled with ndis wrapper to get WiFi running.
Would try again out my early career (2006), went out to Ubuntu and debian. Gamed in early dx7/8 days in wine and Cedega. Would run home servers and mythtv on Linux over the years.
When the steam client beta came out I tried again in earnest to move to Linux full time and was ultimately successful, coming back to Fedora KDE 19 and staying there until moving to Fedora Kinoite last year.
Don’t use Windows really except when I have to with building the SOE and a few windows servers at work. I am involved with azure and azureAD at work, so to me Microsoft is mostly a website and a powershell prompt.
When I was a kid, we used to visit relatives a lot. I was 12 as well and listening to adults talk about boring stuff wasn’t cutting it anymore. Most of my relatives had PCs, but none with any games I’d be interested in. So I took my mom’s 8gb USB stick and turned it into a Linux Mint bootable usb.
Now, keep in mind that I didn’t know that much English at the time and honestly I’m amazed I managed to do that, but… I wasn’t aware stuff on the stick would be overwritten, and let’s just say my mom wasn’t too pleased!
Didn’t even solve my problem, since the only game that would run was Terraria, and that with like 5 fps on most of the computers I tried it on!
Solus deserves to be mentioned here, it's a great distro. The project went through some turbulence earlier this year but seems to be back on track as they've just released a new .iso.
When I used it, I mostly switched between the 9 apps in my favorites/dock with the Meta+digit shortcuts. I rarely used anything besides those 9, and then I just used alt tab. It worked really well, no complaining.
Today it’s mostly the same, but with a tiling window manager and the same numbers: 3 is thunderbird, 5 is file browser for instance. It’s muscle memory at this point, feels great.
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